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Anencephaly is the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp that occurs during embryonic development. [ 1] It is a cephalic disorder that results from a neural tube defect that occurs when the rostral (head) end of the neural tube fails to close, usually between the 23rd and 26th day following conception. [ 2]
Diagnosis. Umbilical cord prolapse should always be considered a possibility when there is a sudden decrease in fetal heart rate or variable decelerations, particularly after the rupture of membranes. With overt prolapses, the diagnosis can be confirmed if the cord can be felt on vaginal examination. Without overt prolapse, the diagnosis can ...
When PROM occurs at term (after 36 weeks), it is typically followed soon thereafter by the start of labor and delivery. About half of women will give birth within 5 hours, and 95% will give birth within 28 hours without any intervention. [11] The younger the baby, the longer the latency period (time between membrane rupture and start of labor).
Surgical correction. Fetal warfarin syndrome is a disorder of the embryo which occurs in a child whose mother took the medication warfarin (brand name: Coumadin) during pregnancy. Resulting abnormalities include low birth weight, slower growth, intellectual disability, deafness, small head size, and malformed bones, cartilage, and joints.
Encephalocele is a neural tube defect characterized by sac-like protrusions of the brain and the membranes that cover it through openings in the skull. These defects are caused by failure of the neural tube to close completely during fetal development. Encephaloceles cause a groove down the middle of the skull, or between the forehead and nose ...
Ordinarily, the treatment would be to induce the fetus, which would probably be still-born or die soon after birth. But the UK doctors told her that under Kentucky’s draconian new abortion laws ...
Pregnancy-associated malaria ( PAM) or placental malaria is a presentation of the common illness that is particularly life-threatening to both mother and developing fetus. [1] PAM is caused primarily by infection with Plasmodium falciparum, [1] [2] the most dangerous of the four species of malaria-causing parasites that infect humans. [3]
Acalvaria. Acalvaria. Specialty. Medical genetics. Acalvaria is a rare malformation consisting of the absence of the calvarial bones, dura mater and associated muscles in the presence of a normal skull base and normal facial bones. The central nervous system is usually unaffected. The presumed pathogenesis of acalvaria is the faulty migration ...